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indigestion, a pungent liquid or solid having been in recent contact
with the inner lining of throat and stomach; from spleen and vapours
of both general and special nature.... There are probably more old
wives tales about such cure as there are spinsters on earth. Sipping
water while standing on the head is allegedly effective; so
is
sipping
water through a napkin-especially when the patient holds his, or her,
own nose, while another sympathetic friend stops the ears. . . .
Vinegar, to the amount of
2
tsp, taken undiluted, has salvaged many.
The same faith is also placed in a lump of sugar with 4 drops of oil
of peppermint on
it.
. . .
In
the days of our grandfather, a pinch of
snuff was offered. Personally we always munch a cube of
ice,
continue
the campaign along original lines if it takes all summer, and don't
worry.
I{i other words any shock of sorts may, or may not, solve the riddle.
We recall hiccoughs being promptly cured once in Seattle, by a re–
sourceful husband who became mildly intolerant of all the r doz or
so friendly suggestions to his thus-afflicted wife, all of which had
failed, and .who emptied a siphon of well-chilled seltzer water down
the front of his wife's newest evening frock. The hiccoughs were
promptly cured, but we regret to report the lady almost immediately
departed for a brief residence in a certain well known city in Nevada.
THE BENGAL HOT DROPS, sometimes KNOWN in SINGAPORE
as "RAFFLES'
QurnT
RELIEF"
Even though we may be careful and lucky enough to avoid the
curse of amoebic alimentary disorders in India, or anywhere in the
Near or Far East, or in the Tropics generally, we sometimes become a
prey-through nourishment on too-ripe fruits, or from other cause-–
to what the old British medicos loved to call "coliks, grypinges,
spleenes, vapours, and other fl.atulencies, or scours." It is a sorry plight
indeed, and no remedy handy, so we append this proven simple as one
of the most valuable we have ever known, and administered as it is
a sort of drink, it is far more pleasant to take internally than the maze
of usual hot drops, blackberry cordials-so called-and other remedies.
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